Man who threw away $500M Bitcoin hard drive sues city for right to search landfill - eviltoast
  • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 month ago

    500 million justifies using some very fancy data recovery means, as long as he’s sure it’s the right drive.

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      1 month ago

      Its not like i am naive to economy but i cant help but see this:

      Ape spends time and energy to convinces other apes to spend time, energy and resources, potentially sacrifice some of the environment and cause hinder to the local population. To dig for a metallic object discarded a decade ago so they can with some hope extract a codestring of information which will unlock some other strings of 0 and 1 that we then collectively agree on means this person has x many digital object which we all agree on has x economic value.

      And if they succeed they will al smile because this is winning.

      Here is sm either more radical/normal, depending on your perspective. Take the drive that has the wallet/or make it a physical one. Place it in a museum and name it “x Bitcoins”. Value recovered and nothing was lost.

      Humans are weird.